A chef and her husband leave the city of Toronto to restore a vintage farmhouse near the village of Creemore in southern Ontario. Their focus is locally-grown seasonal food carefully prepared at the lovely bed and breakfast Mad Maple.

I helped organize three gala fundraisers for which a team of Toronto's top female chefs donated their time and food. The money raised helped renovate and equip Sistering's wonderful new kitchen. We celebrated with a kitchen party.

I chat with Danny Zimmerman about how his father Zoltan was one of the first Jewish merchants in downtown Toronto's Kensington Market. Decades later, in early 2015, they are handing the torch to Potsothy "Pots" Sallapa and a new group of food vendors.

I chat with Susan Wisniewski whose family has owned and operated the glorious, vintage Harbord Bakery in downtown Toronto for 70 years.

Chef Alida Solomon owns a busy Italian restaurant in downtown Toronto. Its name, Tutti Matti, means "everybody's crazy" and she admits she must be to have chosen this adrenaline-charged career.

I go to the source when sleuthing the hot topic of Southern food. Charlotte Observer food editor Kathleen Purvis relishes the chance to give her take on grits, cornbread and, of course, barbecue.

I chat by phone with Julia Child's longtime personal assistant Stephanie Hersh from her home in New Zealand in 2012.

I interview Judith Jones, Julia Child's longtime editor and good friend, at her Upper East Side apartment in 2012.

I'm in Memphis talking with Tony Geraci, Executive Director of Memphis City Schools Nutrition Services, about his amazing work feeding school children.

Greg Couillard began his career as a chef in Toronto in the early '70s. With a reputation as an unpredictable bad boy he's back at age 61 from his home in Mexico with plans to open a restaurant.